Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. The Prayer Book under Queen Mary.—Troubles at Frankfort. Mary succeeded to the Crown in July, 1553. In the month of October in that year, an Act of Parliament" was passed for the purpose of suppressing King Edward's Liturgy, and restoring that in use in the time of King Henry the Eighth. The Preamble sets forth, " That forasmuch as by divers and " several Acts, as well the Divine Service " and good administration of the Sacraments, " and divers other matters of religion, (which " we and our forefathers found in the Church " of England, to us left by the authority of the " Catholic Church,) be partly altered, and in " some part taken from us, and in place " thereof, new things imagined and set forth " by the said Act, such as a few of singu- ' 1 Mar. s. 2. c. 2. " larity have devised; whereof hath ensued " amongst us in very small time, numbers of " divers and strange opinions, and diversities " of sects, and thereby grown great unquiet- " ness and much discord, to the great disturb- " ance of the commonwealth of this realm, " £c." The Act then goes on to repeal the Statutes in the late reign, for giving the Communion in both kinds; for establishing the first and second Liturgy; for confirming the new Ordinal; and for setting aside certain parts and portions formerly observed. It is further enacted, That all such Divine Services and administration of the Sacraments, which were most commonly used in England, in the last year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, shall be revived and practised after the twentieth of December next following : after which term, the officiating in any other Service is forbidden. And lastly, it is provided, that all persons of the Clergy shall be at liberty in the mean time, to use either the old or the new Service. The enforcing of ...